The newspaper asks residents if they are frustrated that state lawmakers have returned to Frankfort and gives them the option to post a daily button to their social networking sites counting each day. Other media outlets have also pounced on the easy target and lampooned the dysfunction, which is costing taxpayers $60,000 per day.

Insight’s Pure Politics took a more lighthearted approach and made a horror film trailer called “Return to Frankfort” featuring Governor Steve Beshear, Senate President David Williams and House Speaker Greg Stumbo.